Gibaja Juan F, Subirà M Eulàlia, Terradas Xavier, Santos F Javier, Agulló Lidia, Gómez-Martínez Isabel, Allièse Florence, Fernández-López de Pablo Javier
Archeology of Social Dynamics, Institución Milá y Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Grup de Recerca Aplicada al Patrimoni Cultural (GRAPAC), Unitat d'Antropologia Biològica, Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
PLoS One. 2015 Jan 28;10(1):e0115505. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115505. eCollection 2015.
Located on the Iberian Mediterranean coast, El Collado is an open-air site where a rescue excavation was conducted over two seasons in 1987 and 1988. The archaeological work excavated a surface area of 143 m2 where 14 burials were discovered, providing skeletal remains from 15 individuals. We have obtained AMS dates for 10 of the 15 individuals by means of the direct dating of human bones. The ranges of the probability distribution of the calibrated dates suggest that the cemetery was used during a long period of time (781-1020 years at a probability of 95.4%). The new dates consequently set back the chrono-cultural attribution of the cemetery from the initial proposal of Late Mesolithic to an older date in the Early Mesolithic. Therefore, El Collado becomes the oldest known cemetery in the Iberian Peninsula, earlier than the numerous Mesolithic funerary contexts documented on the Atlantic façade such as the Portuguese shell-middens in the Muge and Sado Estuaries or the funerary sites on the northern Iberian coast.
埃尔科拉多位于伊比利亚地中海沿岸，是一个露天遗址，1987年和1988年在此进行了两个季节的抢救性发掘。考古工作挖掘了143平方米的地表面积，发现了14座墓葬，出土了15个人的骨骼遗骸。我们通过对人骨直接测年，获得了15个人中10个人的加速器质谱（AMS）年代数据。校准年代概率分布范围表明，该墓地在很长一段时间内被使用（在95.4%的概率下为781 - 1020年）。因此，新的年代数据将该墓地的年代文化归属从最初提出的中石器时代晚期推后到了中石器时代早期的更早时期。所以，埃尔科拉多成为伊比利亚半岛已知最古老的墓地，比在大西洋沿岸记录的众多中石器时代丧葬遗址更早，比如穆热和萨多河口的葡萄牙贝丘，或者伊比利亚北部海岸的丧葬遗址。
